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[RCorcoran]

Has anyone created a proggy that will allow for the easy creation of sprites/stamps for the 2600? I know of, and use, Christopher Pepin's excellent Stella-Graph for creating playfields (which I have updated to VB6), but is there a tool such as this for creating sprites?

Aynone?

Thanks.

[RCorcoran]

I gather from the lack of responses no-one knows of such an animal. So... looks like I'll build one and make it freely available...

[Paul Slocum]

There is one on The Dig. I design them in binary using byte % commands.

http://www.neonghost...-dig/tools.html

-Paul

[RCorcoran]

Paul:

Thanks for the info! I may still write a GUI based proggy (similiar to StellaeGraph) as a POC.

[rasty]

Ron,

if you have some time to put into development, you may want to try and write an updated version of StellaGraph that supports taller and asymetric playfields... and save of data as well!

Just a hint.. but that would be useful! (to me, at least )

greets,
Rasty.-

[RCorcoran]

Let me ask Christopher Pepin for his permission to modify his app. If he gives his blessing, I could do that. If not, maybe we can convince him...

[mactari]

And look how GUI it is... Ron emailed me that he'd posted here asking for this sort of app, and, wouldn't Jung be proud, I'd just made one.

It's a Java app, so you'll need a virtual machine somewhere on your box to run it. For those of you who hate readmes, download this, unzip the jar, and take a command line to the directory where you place the jar. Type this...

java -cp grpxRad.jar frmGrpxRad

... and voila.

URL: http://homepage.mac....ctari/grpxTool/

Hope that helps someone. One afternoon's coding right now, but will hopefully get better. Email me if you need more help or a Java 1.1.x version of the app (like for Mac Classic).

Ruffin Bailey

[RCorcoran]

Ruffin:

How about a Win version that is as pretty as your Mac version?